Ponderation Rate Quotes & Sayings

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B. — Charles Dickens

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. — Robert Orben

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. — Mary Tyler Moore

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece. — Rumi

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.
So the nightbirds will start singing. — Rumi

How could Lincoln reply to such comments, without offending abolitionists or frightening slave-owning Unionists from the Upper South? Placating words were likewise out of the question. A plea from Virginia suggesting Lincoln need do no more than assure Southerners they had the right to bring their property into all American territories reminded the dubious president-elect of an apt story. It concerned a little girl who begged her mother to let her play outside. The mother repeatedly said no, the child persisted, and the mother finally lost patience and gave her a whipping, "upon which," Lincoln chortled, "the girl exclaimed: 'Now, Ma. I can certainly run out. — Harold Holzer

Something among dusty shelves of ordered certitudes long divorced from reality, desiccating peacefully, as if a breath of that air which sees injustice done — William Faulkner

There can be economy only where there is efficiency. — Benjamin Disraeli

The gods have their own laws.
[Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.] — Ovid

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success. — Winston Churchill